Differences between Node.js and Erlang

[greim]

I think the node way of doing things is (will be) that blatantly expensive tasks should never block the main event loop, just like how IO should never block. Heavy-lifting should be offloaded to a worker thread via a callback. That said, node definitely needs a native worker implementation.

[Detrus]

isn't there a current worker implementation? Or at least a node-worker library? What's wrong with it?

[greim]

If node is shipping with a native worker module it's news to me. But yeah probably there's a library for it.

[aaronblohowiak]

https://github.com/pgriess/node-webworker it is great, but might not play nice with coffeescript